This is a huge, huge release for TubePress. YouTube finally decided to upgrade their API to support playlists (among other new features); a capability that TubePress users have been pounding down the doors to get.

New features in this version:

• Now with seven modes of operation. The new ones are:
  • playlists (with paging)
  • featured (the latest 25 featured videos from YouTube’s homepage)
  • popular (the most-viewed videos from the past day, week, or month)
  • related (videos that match any tag that you specify)
• You no longer need to supply your own developer ID and YouTube username. This means that anyone can use TubePress, even if you don’t have a YouTube account!
• Pagination. You control how many videos per page show up (supported modes only)
• Leaner and meaner. The speedups in this version are ridiculous. Makes dozens less of the expensive database calls that existed in previous versions. Reduces database space from about 40 rows to only one.
• Options page is more concise and XHTML compliant
• Improved documentation
• Bug fixes. Too many to list!

If you’re upgrading, please take note of the documentation as some of the syntax has changed. Also, any TubePress options you have saved previously will be wiped out in lieu of the new ones. As always, you can download TubePress from it’s main page. Please send all comments, questions, problems there as well. Enjoy!